Obit: Foote, James #3 (1823 - 1905)

 

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Surnames: Foote, Lynch, Owen, Walker

 

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., Wis.)  12/01/1905

 

Foote, James #3 (16 APR 1823 - 23 NOV 1905)

 

At his home in Neillsville, at 1 o’clock p.m. last Thursday, Nov. 23, 1905, James Foote, a veteran of the Civil War, passed to his final rest.  Mr. Foote was born at Sommershire, England on April 16, 1823, thus he had attained the age of 82 years, 7 months and 7 days, dying of a general decline of old age.  He came to Clark County some 42 or 43 years ago and took up his residence.  He was one of the early pioneers and helped to develop the county.  At tht time Black River Falls was the nearest trading post and many are the trips Mr. Foote made there along the blazed trails for supplies which he, of necessity, packed home on his back.  Some 35 years ago the deceased married Mrs. Katharine Lynch, a widow with two small children, who shared his joys and sorrows with him in his comfortable farm home at Pleasant Ridge until her death there about 14 years ago.  Her death was a sad blow to Mr. Foote and filled him with great unrest, causing him, after selling his farm, to return to England, his birth place; but finding little or no comfort in that trip, his stay there was very short, returning, he boarded around among his old neighbors for a while, investing in some timberland some few miles south of Neillsville, he moved to the city that he might be nearer it and look after it, boarding for a time; later, purchasing a lot just outside the city limits and building for himself a comfortable home where he spent the last 6 years of his life.  He is survived by Mrs. Owen, a divorced wife, whom he married about 6 years ago, and by John Lynch, bookkeeper for Godfrey & Son, commission men of Milwaukee, and Mrs. Clint Walker (born Maymie Lynch) of Cliftondale, Mass, the children of his first wife.  The funeral took place from the Presbyterian Church at Neillsville at 2 o’clock Sunday and was largely attended by old friends and neighbors from the Ridge, together with his new friends and neighbors of the city.  The deceased was an eccentric man, but withal a thoroughly honest and honorable gentleman, well known and long to be remembered as "Uncle Jim."

 

 


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